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Using ChatGPT as a Writer’s Assistant

teacher avatar Stephen Haunts, Trainer, Public Speaker, Author

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      5:11

    • 2.

      Using ChatGPT as a Thesaurus

      4:04

    • 3.

      Using ChatGPT to help with research

      5:05

    • 4.

      Using ChatGPT to suggest names

      3:37

    • 5.

      Using ChatGPT to write simple lyrics and poems

      4:04

    • 6.

      Using ChatGPT to simplify text

      2:05

    • 7.

      Using ChatGPT to brainstorm story ideas and outlines

      10:09

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Welcome to “Using ChatGPT as a Writer’s Assistant” – a course that will revolutionise the way you write! Whether you are a novelist, a blogger, or a content creator, ChatGPT is the ultimate tool that will help you elevate your writing skills to the next level.

In this course, I will explore the many ways ChatGPT can assist you in your writing journey. You will learn how to use ChatGPT for story research, how to access an advanced thesaurus that goes beyond mere synonyms, and how to come up with creative names for your characters.

I will also show you how ChatGPT can simplify your text and help you with revision, giving you more time to focus on the creative aspects of your work. And if you’re struggling with coming up with an engaging story outline, ChatGPT has got you covered! I will teach you how to use it to generate story prompts and explore different story arcs.

But don’t be intimidated by the idea of using AI tools like ChatGPT. This course will reassure you that these tools are here to assist writers, not replace them. I firmly believe machines can not replicate that human creativity and imagination. So, join me and unlock the full potential of your writing with ChatGPT as your trusted assistant.

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Stephen Haunts

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Hi, I am Stephen Haunts, a software developer, online trainer, classroom teacher, public speaker, podcaster and author. I have over 25 years of experience as a software developer and a leader working at huge organizations from global banks, financial lenders, healthcare and insurance. 

I am now a freelance trainer, podcaster, and book author. I also travel around the world speaking at many conferences about software development, leadership, and personal soft skills, and I have a passion for helping professionals improve their skills.

I have been teaching online with the Pluralsight platform since 2014, and I am now teaching small skills-based courses here on SkillShare. I hope you enjoy the courses that I post here and I would be grateful if you could fol... See full profile

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1. Introduction: Welcome to this course using chat GPT as a writer as assistance. This course is aimed at people who write novels and non-fiction books. I want to explore using a tool like chat GPT to be an assistant. I don't mean using chat GPT to write the books for you, and I'll cover that in a moment. But this is purely as an assistant that you can use to ask questions and generate ideas and become inspired. Apt? Well, it's a text-based artificial intelligence at all on what this means is, you can ask it questions much like an online chats, say on WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger. Instead of talking to another person you're talking to, an AI. Ai will give you good useful responses back. This makes it great for research as a writer. First of all, I want to talk a little bit about my thoughts on AI tools for writers in general. And this is my opinion. So it doesn't necessarily reflect anyone else's opinion, but this is kind of what I think whenever new innovations come out, it's quite natural for people to be a bit worried about it. With a lot of the AI based image generation tools that have come out. It's quite rightly got graphic designers and digital artists little worried because he's AI tools are coming out with basically examples of work that are very good. They're very detailed and they look great. And they've been trained on lots and lots or thousands or maybe even millions of Oddi, pre-existing pieces of artwork. Which is causing a bit of controversy around who owns the rights to the images that have been used as part of the training data. But that's not what I'm talking about. So I'm talking specifically about writers in general. Now, do I think tools that chat GPT could write a book? I mean, yeah, they could don't think there's any good fit for some non-fiction stuff that I've seen people experiment with. It sounds pretty good, but it's come up with specifically for novels. I personally, I'm not interested in reading a novel that's been written by an AI. The reason for that is when a person writes a book, you're getting an interview into that person's mind. So no matter what the story is, your a, or hopefully getting a fun, engaging story. Also, it's kind of a look into that person's mind is that you're spending time with the right and next to you. If you read a book by Stephen King, e.g. I mean, like it. Yeah, great, great horror story about the clown. It's a great story in its own rights, but also because of the strong character voice in the book. It also feels like you're with Stephen King and he's telling you that story. I don't personally think AI can replace that. And I certainly had no intention or desire to read books written by an AI at all. But I do think AI tools that chat GPT are very useful and they work well as an assistant to a writer. Certainly you can ask questions too. You can do research, you can brainstorm and fro around ideas or a story. In that regard, chat GPT is absolutely fantastic and I'm gonna show you some simple examples of how I've used chat GPT for some of my work. I'll just start with that by saying, you know, I don't think towards that chat GPT should be used for writing novels. I just don't. I think it has to be done the old-fashioned way which is bombing see hands-on keyboard. And then the story comes out of the human because an AI, it may come up with an interest in action the same e.g. but it's not really, I don't think I'd be able to capture that kind of emotional nuance that a human writer or skilled human moieties gonna be able to give that story and the characters. But as a tool for research, I think it's very good about me before we proceed. So my name is Steven haunts. I've written many books and lots of non-fiction books in the past. But the two that I think are most relevant here are the ones I had on the screen. So whilst I've written and published a lot of non-fiction books before, both through traditional and self-publish roots, I've now dip my toes into the, the wonderful world of writing fiction. So my first novel is called Diary of a Martian. It's a middle grade science fiction adventure. So it's kinda aimed at the nine to 12-year-old reading group, but I'll try to make it fun and engaging the adults could actually enjoy it as well. Feel free to check it out if like sci-fi stories. And I've also written another book called on writing your first novel, the journey of a wanna be novelist. When I wrote this book as kind of a behind the scenes documentary, I guess, of the writing of diarrhea the Martians. It's about what it's like to write your first novel. I use diarrhea for Martian as my example throughout the book. And I'll talk about how I came up the idea, how I plan the book, and how it went through the writing process, the editing process, cover design, interior design of the formatting of the book. So it really is not one of those behind the scenes feature x that you get on a Blu-ray, this chlorophyll. And my purpose of that book is I hope it will inspire other writers when they write in their Facebook. So with that, let's now go into chat GPT and see how we can use it as a capable assistance of the writer. 2. Using ChatGPT as a Thesaurus: To here you can see the main screen for chat GPT. Here you can see the main window for chat GPT. To access it, you just open a new browser and go to the URL chats, that's open. Ai.com is the first time you've used chat GPT, you will be asked to create an account. So I am logged in here. Worth noting that at the time of recording, there is a way you can upgrade chat GPT for $20 a month. And what this will do is it'll give you fast response times and give you access to basic services when it's in high demand. Because chat GPT has been very popular. Sometimes it can be a bit hard to access the site. Currently. The upgrade is well, at the time of recording is only available in the US. Unfortunately for me because I'm in the UK, I can't actually take advantage of this great plan. If you are in the US than currently, it costs $20 a month. If you plan on using chatter EPT as a writing assistance, fairly often it might be a worthy upgrade to do. The WeChat GPT works is very straightforward. We have a little chat window. Down the bottom here. You type into that text box, hit return and then chat GPT will respond to look at first is how to use chat GPT is a fancy Thesaurus because you can actually do some cool things. Have it where you can know if you're stuck on a word, word usage can get trapped GPT just to help you along to e.g. say you have a line in the story and if he gets a fairly good line, but you want to see if THE be taken help you come up with something better. So this is the query I'm going to ask. I have a line in a story and then the rain poured down striking the ground with force. What I'm asking in chat GPT is can you write this in a more provocative and emotive way on a sense of dread as the rain falls. Let's see what GPT comes up with. Because sometimes take a few moments just because the service can be in high demand. This is why if you have the ability to pay for the upgrade is probably worth it. Like I said, he's touching the PTs suggestion. The sky is unleashed a rough upon the earth as rain came crashing down. Each droplet pounding the ground with unrelenting force, staring a primal fear within those who dare to bear witness. That's pretty cool. Let's ask it for another one. Can you try another version? As the droplets of rain fell, a sense of foreboding washed over them. But soon the heavens opened up, unleashing a deluge of water that pounded the Earth with relentless fury. Each drop like a drumbeat heralding and impending doom. And that's pretty cool I think. So we want to use in chat GPT to write your whole story. But sometimes if you have a line and he, you know, it can do better. But sometimes your brain just isn't going to work for you. Sometimes you come up, come up a blank on how to improve some things attract GPT can actually help you out in those cases, it's a bit like turn into a colleague in the office and saying, how can I improve this? Getting someone else's opinion? And chat GPT is very good for that. So let's look at just one more example. So I need a better word than punish when talking about telling off a child in a story. She might think that the word punish is a bit too dramatic or a bit too forceful. So you just want another suggestion. Here's some alternative ways to punish when talking about telling off a child in a story, scold, reprimand, admonish, rebuke, child, reprove, correct. Discipline, or teach a lesson. So scold, that sounds quite good. Scold a child for a talking back to you, e.g. rebuke. That's probably a bit too harsh. Child. Not so sure. It's cold, quite good or reprimand. So that's a good example or a couple of examples of how to use chat GPT to either suggest some words or does improve on a sentence that you've already written. Thanks. We'll look at an example of using chat GPT for research questions. 3. Using ChatGPT to help with research: When you're writing a story or researching a story, it's quite common that you'd use a search engine like Google or Bing to ask questions and try and do some research, but check chat GPT can also fulfill that role for you really well. So let's do a couple of examples just to illustrate. Let's say you're writing a story that's going to be setting in prehistoric times. Now, how far back you go you don't really show. You're going to have caveman or cave people in it so you can have dinosaurs. You're not sure. But one question that you might think about is, did dinosaurs and humans or cave men ever live at the same time? So we can ask that question. It says no humans and dinosaurs did not exist on Earth at the same time, dinosaurs lived on earth during the Mesozoic Era, which lasted for about 252 million years ago to 66 million years ago. The first mammals, which are a group of animals that includes humans, appeared much later in the fossil record during the Mesozoic Era, but towards the end of it, around 200 million years ago. That's pretty cool. That's quite a very simple closed question, but it gave quite a good interesting result there. That has a closed question. Did humans and dinosaurs exists on earth at the same time check GPT could have even gone yes or no, but she gave us a little bit of contact, which is quite useful. Let's ask a more open question and then we can have a play around with it. You don't necessarily you check GPC just to get one result, it'll give you a result. Then you can ask further probing questions because one of the cool benefits of chat GPT is it remembers the conversation. It has conversational history. So you can dive in and ask further questions, but check GPT still has the context of the conversation, which is really smart. So here's a more open question. Is there any documented evidence of aliens on Earth? Maybe you're writing a science fiction story or an alien invasion story. There's no credible documented evidence to support the existence of aliens on Earth. Fair enough. Despite numerous claims and reports of sightings and encounters with extraterrestrial beings. There's no scientific to be verifiable evidence to support these claims. Many of these reports can be attributed to natural phenomena, misinterpretations, hoaxes, or misunderstandings. Okay, fair enough. The search for extraterrestrial life is an active field of scientific inquiry. Amongst scientists have discovered many planets it could potentially support life. There's currently no evidence of extraterrestrial life or visitation on Earth. But what about Roswell? What happened there? Let's ask gets incident is a famous UFO sighting that occurred in 1940, 70 Roswell, New Mexico, USA. I guess it's given us a fair bit of extra information. I'm not going to eat all of it out. I mean, you can read it off the screen yourself. It talks about a weather balloon or top secret military balloon. So we could ask it a bit more about that. The military balloon were covered in Roswell as part of a classified program known as Project Mogul. It's a cool name which was designed to monitor the Soviet Union's nuclear weapons session during the early years of the Cold War was quite interesting and it's giving us more information. So you have the ability to probe and ask more questions. It's a bit like talking to an expert because I see chat GPT-2 been fed with a huge amounts of training data from the Internet. So you can really dig in and this is one of the things I like about it because when you're trying to plan or researcher novel, you don't always have the ability to sit down and chat to people wherever it be, other peers or other people who are writing group or whatnot. But I find that personally, I mean, I have a varieties like, nope, I can't just sit around asking them questions all day. He's just like that chat GPT is a great way of just researching and actually having a conversation with something in this case is an AI system. But it can be really good for stimulating the imagination. I mean, we could be could private probe a bit further? Say, are there aliens at Area 51? Not quite sure how much it's gonna be able to tell us because it's a top secret base, but we shall see there's no credible evidence support the claim that are aliens. Area 5011 is a highly classified United States Air Force facility located in the Nevada desert. I mean, it wasn't actually honestly expecting it. So give us a an in-depth answers to that. But it is giving us quite a lot of information back, which we can then kinda delve into a bit further, which is pretty cool. Using it for research, as you can see, is great. You can ask it a question, you can ask a follow on questions. Then you can copy out this tax. You can stick it into a research documents and you can see is that as a way of building up lots of research data for a particular story. There's quite a few times. So my novel Diary of a Martian, I ask lots of questions about Mars, the Mars missions, and what would it be like to live on Mars? Atmospheric pressure and all that sort of stuff. And it just gave me loads of information back, which is pretty cool. It's an x. I'm going to use chat GPT to be a bit more creative and help us with coming up with names, specifically alien names in my case, because that's what I found quite useful. 4. Using ChatGPT to suggest names: So my science fiction book, I have some aliens in there, and I've always found coming up with strange names to be a bit difficult because you'll try and brainstorm a load of ideas and names and you write them down and I don't know, maybe it's just me but I was just thinking I add a not very good. But sometimes I need someone or something to that GPT in this case, it just suggests something to me. So let's give it a try and see what it comes up with. Can you suggest some names for an alien species? Zan Dorians, epsilon nights. So axions, Korean suggestions and overwrites. Cause means Liberians for lessons and Oreos. I pretty cool. So I quite like number eight, librarians. Can you suggest some alien names for the live rounds? Lyra, thiazolium, orange, Solara is Andrey. Alicia, phallus, nella vault or Zoran. In a few questions, we've got some pretty cool alien species names. And if one of those alien species, we've come up with some actual names of the characters. Now, whether you use those directly or whether you use them, or you might combine some. So you can have origins and Landry, e.g. you could combine two together. It doesn't really matter how you do it. It's just a good way of giving yourself a little mental nudge to find out some different names. But let's say you want to design a bit more down to earth. You want some kind of posh sound in British names for a period drama? Can you suggest some posh sounding British names for story set in, let's say the 1920s. Look for, so it comes out with here. Penelope are going on Gwendolyn Rupert's Beatrice Montgomery, Priscilla, Reginald, Henrietta Cedric. Pretty cool. But can you include surnames? Canopy Fairfax algorithm bearing gold, Gwendolyn Frobisher, Rupert's Cavendish, Beatrice financial, Montgomery, devo, Priscilla pen button regimen fits William Henrietta Ashburn or Cedric, which actually, I like those. Penelope Fairfax, that sounds cool. You can have a good protagonist called Penelope Fairfax. Okay, so we've got some 1920s names. How about a made-up fictional town that they could live in? Can you suggest some names for made up British towns? Hope none of these are rude because in Britain we do have some town names that sound a bit rude. Childhood on trend, chest field, green pepper written heath, Bramble, turn on a Evan Hatfield, vowel beach would cross. Ashby park, has some good names there. So it's a really good way of suggesting names because I don't know about you. I find that quite difficult sometimes. To the next clip we're going to venture. It's a bit strange or territory by looking at the generation of alien poetry actually did for my book. And it was quite cool. So let's have a look. 5. Using ChatGPT to write simple lyrics and poems: In the sequel is my diary of a Martian novel. I have a scene where we have some aliens. I'm a bit of a comedy saying it's a lighthearted seeing what I'm trying to get the reader to really bond with the aliens. Were one of them do a poetry recital in a strange alien language. And what I'm thinking is it'll be a cross between some hacking and gagging sounds like Klingons from Star Trek versus the awful Vogue on poetry from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. And I wanted a little bit of inspiration from chat GPT to help with that. So let's try it now. Can you write and alien sounding poem in a strange language that is similar style to click on, it needs to be quiet. Or for like the Vogue on poetry. Logan, at the Vogue on poetry from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Who knows what it's going to come up with here? I'm not even going to attempt to try and meet that out. I just tried to first-hand crowding Jack gotten clicks or sing for Pollux and Turkle in the thorax in sync on fray, ninja tricks in Slate array. It's quite good actually. Well, it's actually descended into English at one point as to Crimson battlefield lies, okay, Well, you didn't actually want any English bits, but I mean that's quite good. Somebody that has kinda resorted to English, which is not what we asked for. But there's some interesting ideas there. Can you make it more alien with no English words or phrases? We can ask it to refine it a bit. But that's more like it. Just visualize my aliens in my story, reading this out now, it's an open mike poetry recital of all things. I guess I'm going to click stop generating there. So it still works in a few English. Word says it's not, it's not perfect. You can take bits hour as you like, and you can create something that you think is relevant to your story. And this is kind of a weird niche example. It's saying that is relevant that I actually did in my book. Isn't there's another thing that I did that I'm doing in the second diary for Martian book. Where, because it's a middle grade story, some of the kids singing this song. And it's pitched as like the latest pop song from Earth, which he handles all think is absolutely awful. Yeah, it's quite common as parents now we think about the music kids listen to is pretty terrible. So I asked you to write a very, very annoying pop song. So let's try it now. Can you write a very annoying and childish pop song about it? Be about robots. Robots, they're so-called. They've got arms and legs and tools. They beep and beep and make me smile. They do stuff in just a while. I mean, I did ask you to write an annoying song. That is, I can imagine it'd be quite annoying. And again, of course I said I'd never use chat GPT-2 like an actual book or the actual pros of the story. Because I think that kinda has to come from the heart, it comes from the person. But sometimes it's doing things like this gives you a little bit of inspiration. Or you could use that if you needed the whole lyrics to a song, or you could use it as inspiration. That's kind of up to you how far you take it. But when I had to write this song for the story that these kids are singing. I mean, I'm terrible at writing songs. I could never do it and I'm even worse at poetry. So this actually kinda gave me a little bit of assistance. And then I took the texts I got from chat GPT and I changed it a bit and I spent a bit of time playing around with it, but it gave me that initial kernel of an idea that I could play around with. So in the next example, we're going to look at how we can use chat GPT as a way of effectively being an editor. So we're going to give you an example that's quite complex, a complex or overly complex set of sentences. And we're going to ask chat GPT to try and simplify it for us. 6. Using ChatGPT to simplify text: In this next example, I have a pre-written set of sentences which quite frankly are dreadful, overly complex, overly wordy, and not very good. But what we can do is we can just check GPT in some cases to help us simplify some phrases that we've written. Because sometimes when you're working on your second revisions of the book, e.g. sometimes it can be a bit about, you can have a bit of a mental block when it comes to trying to simplify your own work. Then about tools like Grammarly and pre-writing a data which also help. But chat GPT is also a very capable tool. So I say can you, can you simplify the following text in quotes so it knows that's what I want simplified. So I wanted to simplify is the following. This is a rather complex sensors that could really do with being simplified. Although I'm not sure how to do it is I really want to use this as an example, but I can't think of anything else on live chat GPT can help me out as it is really rather complex and not easy to read. I think any reader reading this would be put off by my book. So that's a pretty horrible piece of prose, isn't it? So let's see what chat GPT you can do with that. This is what it's come up with. This sentence is complicated and needs to be simpler. I want to use it as an example, but I don't know how to simplify it. Can track GPT helped me. It's not easy to read and leaders might not like my book. So actually it's done a pretty good job there. It's taken what was a confusing sentence, not much punctuation and just Germany, quite awful. And it has created a simpler version of that. So it's actually worked out quite well. Now he's not perfect. That first sentence, this sentence is complicated and needs to be simpler. We could say instead, this instance is complicated, needs to be simplified and probably sound better. But it's actually done a large part of the work for you there now actually sounds pretty good. If you're struggling with editing and revision, they will not throw some of the texts into chat GPT and see what it can do to help you refine and revise some of your work. Then the final section of this course, I want to ask track GPT to help me with some outlines of a story. So let's take a look. 7. Using ChatGPT to brainstorm story ideas and outlines: I've been using the same chat session all throughout this course, but what I'm gonna do now is when we create a new chat. Now when you're coming up with story ideas or an outline for story, sometimes it's nice to actually sit down with our varieties and throw ideas around and kinda chew the fat varieties, but that's not always possible to do. So track GPT is actually pretty good at coming up with rough outlines for stories which you may or may not use it in the form that they come out of chat GPT, but it's all about stimulating creative ideas. Just give you an example. We're just going to throw around some simple ideas and see what it comes with. Now I have no idea what is going to come back with. So we're just going to play around with it, see what it suggests and maybe ask it to refine some ideas, which you can then copy that text out into another document. You can use some of the advice that chat GPT comes up with. You combine ideas or it may actually stimulate your brain to think up alternative ideas which are better. Again, we're not using chat GPT to write the actual story. I still think that has to come from the writer. The old-fashioned way, bombing safe fingers on keyboard. Using an AI to help brainstorm and develop ideas. He's actually really useful and I think that's fine. I mean, there's nothing wrong with that. So here's our prompt. Can you come up with an example outline for an alien invasion story? Let's see what it comes up with. I guess as far as outlines go, I mean, that's pretty generic, isn't it? So it's an introduction where we have the inciting incident. The invasion begins resistance and survival, discovering aliens weaknesses, a final battle and an epilogue. Now you're not necessarily going to write it to an award winning story just from that, but it's a start. So he was wondering about how you might structure an alien invasion story. That's not bad. There's some good bit sad. So let's zero in on just a few bits and let's just see how we can narrow this down. The alien show their power. The invasion begins in the alien show their power. So can you suggest some examples where examples how the aliens show their power. So massive alien spaceship appears in the sky dwarfing all human aircraft and technology. Aliens use advanced energy weapons or effortlessly destroyed military bases in cities. Reminds me of independence day. Then the film Letters. Aliens demonstrate their superior technology by hacking into and taking control of human computer systems. Yeah, that sounds good. I is use a psychic abilities to influence and control human minds who are getting, they're getting body's natural vibes from that, the aliens revealed themselves to be much stronger, faster, and more durable than humans by easily overpowering any resistance fighters who stand in their way. I didn't show their abilities to terraform or manipulate the environment is causing massive earthquake storms and natural disasters. That's kind of interesting because they're getting an alien invasion story. Then kind of merging it with a typical disaster story scenario that can be from the aliens, deploy robots or drones are so much more advanced in any human technology, easily gathering intelligence and carrying out targeted attacks. That's pretty cool. A1 is demonstrate their ability to manipulate time or space using teleportation, odd or other advanced technology to travel instantaneously between locations. Some quite interesting ideas and now you can narrow down into each of them further. So you can say, give me examples of alien energy weapons and things like that. We're not gonna do that now, this next slide you could do yourself. Let's pick another area so humanity's attempts to fight back. That sounds cool. We like a good battle. So can you suggest examples of humanities attempt to fight back military resistance. So the military launches a full-scale attack on alien invaders using all available weapons and technology. It is imagine that the movie for that now, yeah, lots of CGI, guerrilla warfare, a group of resistance fighters use is hit and run tactics to disrupt the aliens, operatives, operations and infrastructures. That could be quite cool is you can have a more intimate small band of guerrilla fighters going in to try and disable the aliens. Cyber warfare, biological warfare, diplomacy. Human need is attempt to negotiate a peaceful resolution. I mean, yeah, I mean, you could have that going on while you have a gorilla team going in. It could be a nice interplay between trying to collaborate or negotiate and attack. That could be good. Espionage. Humans spicy tend to infiltrate the aliens ranks and gather intelligence. That's pretty cool. Psychological warfare. So humans attempt to use propaganda, misinformation, or other tactics to undermine the aliens morale and cause them to turn on each other. That's pretty interesting. Or somebody in health or human tried to reach out to other civilizations are beings even from Earth or beyond. I kind of imagined it in a Star Trek scenario, couldn't use. So we have an alien invasion coming to Earth and then we call them the Vulcans to come and help or maybe the Klingons be quite cool, interest-free query so far we've asked it for a very simple outline, which admittedly was quite generic, but it's given us some food for thought. And just in a couple of areas we've narrowed down. So we've asked it, I know how might the Aliens Attack. Some quite nice ideas. You could drill down further. Or that may have already stimulated your imagination to come up with other scenarios. We've asked it for some examples of humanity's attempts to fight back. And there's some quite good ideas and you could use a combination. I think one hand, you've got diplomacy going on whilst a larger attack, try and catch Dalian off guard whilst you attacking. Lovely, I mean, that could be quite cool. Let's just do one more. So in the epilogue here says The world has changed forever. I wonder what that means there. Can you give some examples where the world is changed forever? The end of The story. So rebuilding, the surviving humans must work to rebuild their cities, infrastructure and society. Unity, the invasion brings people together, causing previously divided factions, put aside their differences and work towards a common goal. That's not me quite a good one because that's saying that nothing brings people together like a common enemy. Well, that could actually play out at the end of the story where you have different countries who used to be enemies actually coming together. Now obviously huge loss of life, new leadership. So the invasion has caused a major shift in leadership, cultural changes. The invasion has caused a shift in cultural attitudes and values of surviving humans, often reflecting the trauma and devastation I've experienced IT and technology. So the aliens advanced technology has been left behind, allowing humans to study it and potentially use it for their own purposes. I mean, yeah, you would want, if you had a downed alien spaceship began to investigate it and learn from it fear of future invasions. So the invasion has left humans with a lingering fear. Future Alien Attack prompted them to take steps to prepare for such a possibility. When I'm getting to see my mind now I'm getting like an entire series come into mind. I am changes to the planet. The invasion may have left behind significant environmental damage or changes to the planets, such as the introduction of alien flora or fauna. That can be quite interesting. There's some of the remnants of the aliens start to affect the planets, even a good way or bad way. These are some simple examples of how you can use chat GPT as a writer's assistant. Now, as I stated at the beginning of the course, I know if a book was, a whole book was written by chat GPT, would I be interested in reading it? Probably not because one of the beauties of fiction and nonfiction as well as, as well as having an engaging story or learning some interesting facts. You're also spending time within the mind of the writer. I don't personally think computers ever going to replace that. It's kind of being human is what makes us good at writing because you're spending time in someone else's mind. I don't think that's ever going to change. And me personally, I have no intention of using chat GPT to write the actual book, but using it as a way of brainstorming ideas, especially if you haven't got anyone else around that you can ask these questions to, it's actually really useful. Just this previous example we've done about the alien invasion story. Now, the outline was incredibly generic that it came up with to start with. But just by digging into some of those different areas, It's actually come up some quite good ideas. Now you could keep on drilling into this as long as you want and then copy the text, output it into documents, and then use that as a basis for coming up with the actual plots. So there's lots of possibilities here. And I think instead of being afraid of these new technological innovations like chat GPT, instead of being worried about them. But wherever they're going to replace this as writers, I think we should actually embrace them. It's not going to replace this at all. But as an assistant, I mean, this is huge. As a writer myself, I can't just spend all my time talking to people because they're busy doing their own work. So to actually have this system that I can just ask well formed, intelligent questions to actually get good cogent, sensible, and useful responses back is absolutely game-changing. And I hope you find that as well. Which is why I wanted to make this course just to show you some simple examples of how I personally use chat GPT to help me out as a writer and to help me produce better books. So with that, I hope you've enjoyed the course and thank you very much, and I hope you enjoy using chat GPT going forward. I'd be very grateful if you could wait this course, so it really helps me out and leaving a review as well. I'll be incredibly grateful if you could do that and let people know about this course. Being people in getting to watch it with that. Thank you very much.